# Why I love SDMB and my husband **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764 "2015-04-04T00:21:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/1 "2015-04-04T00:21:20Z")
My husband just walked in as I was browsing SDMB on my iPad. I said, “Let my show you why I love Straight Dope.” I scrolled down the thread, and my husband observed, “It’s all words.” Then I pulled up Facebook, and said “Let me show you why I don’t like Facebook.” I scrolled down the News Feed, and he observed, “It’s all pictures.” I love that my husband could so quickly intuit why I love what I love. And, in an Internet world that seems to be reverting back to the picture books I read when I was three, I love that there’s still a corner of the Internet where substance outweighs flashy graphics. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/2 "2015-04-04T00:25:33Z")
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways… ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/3 "2015-04-04T00:25:49Z")
Pics or it didn’t happen. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Teach-me-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a4c791/32.png) [@Teach-me-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teach-me-not)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/4 "2015-04-04T00:32:20Z")
If a picture is worth a thousand words, does that mean facebook is really chock full of words? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/5 "2015-04-04T00:36:19Z")
> [@Teach-me-not](#): > > If a picture is worth a thousand words, does that mean facebook is really chock full of words? 😕 Not all words are created equal. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/6 "2015-04-04T00:40:54Z")
I read the thread title and automatically hoped both involved a future of wild sex. Oh well, we can’t win them all. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/7 "2015-04-04T01:14:57Z")
I don’t really get the meme that words are magically more adult, erudite, and sophisticated here. Most research-level publications have quite a few figures and pictures in them, and this goes back quite a while. Illustrations are a cornerstone of advanced communication. Not all pictures are lolcats and selfies. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/8 "2015-04-04T04:03:06Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I read the thread title and automatically hoped both involved a future of wild sex. Oh well, we can’t win them all. It’s a reasonable inference, though… ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/9 "2015-04-04T04:21:53Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > I don’t really get the meme that words are magically more adult, erudite, and sophisticated here. Most research-level publications have quite a few figures and pictures in them, and this goes back quite a while. Illustrations are a cornerstone of advanced communication. Not all pictures are lolcats and selfies. Depends on the discipline. I’ve published a number of articles, and none of them have pictures. That’s standard in my field. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/10 "2015-04-04T10:59:12Z")
TL;DR ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/11 "2015-04-04T13:59:38Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > … Not all pictures are lolcats and selfies. But you’ve got to admit that those, and other themes of equal inanity are, shall we say, overrepresented, on teh Facebook? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/12 "2015-04-04T14:11:19Z")
[Oh, so you love your husband.](http://ct.fra.bz/ol/fz/sw/i53/5/7/31/frabz-SO-YOU-LOVE-YOUR-HUSBAND-tell-me-again-in-5-minutes-just-to-remi-f371d2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/13 "2015-04-04T14:40:12Z")
Well that proves it. 1000 words are worth more than a picture after all, at least when it comes to love. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/14 "2015-04-05T05:25:48Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I read the thread title and automatically hoped both involved a future of wild sex. Oh well, we can’t win them all. That thread would be in the Game Room. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/15 "2015-04-05T06:29:47Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > I don’t really get the meme that words are magically more adult, erudite, and sophisticated here. Most research-level publications have quite a few figures and pictures in them, and this goes back quite a while. Illustrations are a cornerstone of advanced communication. It’s true that pictures aid understanding quickly and greatly. As someone once pointed out to Richard Feynman, an illustration of a car’s crankshaft is much clearer than a description. But also note that pictures preceded writing by thousands of years and children look at pictures before they learn to read. Are words inherently “more adult, erudite, and sophisticated”? No. Just look at what BS [insert name of your most hated politician/entertainer/media figure/etc.] says. OTOH, the relatively limited nature of words forces you to be more precise and complete. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/16 "2015-04-05T16:22:44Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > I don’t really get the meme that words are magically more adult, erudite, and sophisticated here. Most research-level publications have quite a few figures and pictures in them, and this goes back quite a while. Illustrations are a cornerstone of advanced communication. Not all pictures are lolcats and selfies. When I got my degree I swore I would never read a book without pictures again. Fortunately, Archaeology pretty much requires pictures, so I didn’t have to read many before graduation, either. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/17 "2015-04-05T17:10:10Z")
Just wait until I start my own message board which can only compose messages made of rebus puzzles. The message board for the _true_ intellectual. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/18 "2015-04-05T17:39:32Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > I don’t really get the meme that words are magically more adult, erudite, and sophisticated here. Most research-level publications have quite a few figures and pictures in them, and this goes back quite a while. Illustrations are a cornerstone of advanced communication. Not all pictures are lolcats and selfies. It’s like this: Children’s books use little to no words and lots of pictures. Using little to no words is childlike. Using pictures implies the audience is of low intelligence, very young or impaired. Therefore, using lots of words and no pictures means you are of high sophistication, intelligence and maturity. It’s only common sense! ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/19 "2015-04-05T17:46:23Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Just wait until I start my own message board which can only compose messages made of rebus puzzles. The message board for the _true_ intellectual. Cryptograms or death! ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764/20 "2015-04-05T18:11:37Z")
> [@lorene](#): > > Cryptograms or death! [Or in other words…](http://s33.photobucket.com/user/cmykev/media/Cryptogram_zpsnuppl43z.jpg.html?t=1428170991) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-sdmb-and-my-husband/716764.md?page=2)